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No. 284,858. Patented sept. 28, 1882.

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UNITED f STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ESEK BUSSEY, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

STOVE-G RATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,858, dated September 26, 1882.

Application led J u1y 45, 1882. (No model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ESEK BUSSEY, of' the city oi'Troy, county ot' Rensselaer, and State ot' New York, have invented a new and useful Iniprovement in Stove-Grates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of devices known as duplex grates,77 which have heretofore been patented; and it consists in an improvement thereon.l

My invention applies to a divided grate, each half of which is hung upon trunnions and has attached at one end the usual fanshaped articulating gearing, so constructed that by turning one portion of the grate upon its truuuious an equal movement is given to both parts, whereby they move toward or away from a common center, thereby accomplishing its purpose ot' cutting ott' the ashes from the lower part of the fire and dropping them into the ash-pit beneath, at the same time forming a rm bed under the tire and preventing ahy further disturbance of the same, the whole being placed at the bottom of a fire-box that is vertically grated at its front; and my invention consists, as 'will hereinafter be more fully set forth, of an improvement upon such grates and the manner of working the same, in that there are added to the front half ot' the grate teeth corresponding in size to the slots of the grated front ot the lire-box, and so located that when the two parts of the grate are operated to cut 0E the ashes from the lower part ot' the tire `the teeth on the front halt of the grate move upwardly and through the slots in the front oi' the lire-box, thereby removing the ashes or other refuse substance that may have collected against the inside of the front of the tire-box.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, there are two iigures illustrating my invention, and in both ot which the `same designation of parts by letter reference is used.

in its normal position in the tire-box, A being the fire-box; B, the front half of the grate;

O, the teeth, adjusted to the front half of the grate; D', the slots in the grated front ofthe tire-box, and F F the fan-shaped articulating gearing placed at the ends of the shafts of the two parts of the grate.v

Fig. 2 represents in perspective the front halt of the grate, C being the teeth adjusted thereto, and S the shaft upon which that portion ot' the grate rotates.

Equal movement being given to the two parts of the grate by turning the shaft S ot the front halt' of the grate, and the grate being so turned as to eut oli? the ashes from beneath the fire and drop them int-0 the ash-pit, the teeth O of the front half of the grate move upwardly while this is being done on the dotted lineEand through the slots D in the grated front of the tire-box, thereby removing the ashes' or such other refuse as may have collected against the inside ot' the front of the tire-box and keeping the front of the tire bright bright and clear.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

Teeth constructed upon the front halt' of'a duplex grate, and so arranged that when the grate is operated to cut oft' the ashes at the bottomot' the tire and to drop them into the ash-pit beneath they (the teeth) shall be carried upwardly by the same movement and through the slots in the grated front of the fire-box, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 29th day ot May, 1882.

ESEK BUSSEY.

Witnesses:

CEAS. M. AUSTIN, JNO. W. RoEABAcK. 

